Comparison

Staventabs vs Anyone Composer

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Staventabs

Compose and edit musical scores and tablature with a user-friendly interface. Create new pieces from scratch or templates, input notes intuitively, and enhance your compositions with advanced editing tools. Practice your songs with playback and metronome features, and manage your projects seamlessly.

Highlights
  • Score and tablature editing
  • Intuitive note input
  • Virtual piano and fingerboard
  • Instrument previews
  • Playback and metronome
  • AI-powered scale suggestions
  • MIDI and MusicXML import/export
Features
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A simple notation and tab editor, Staventabs could become your indispensable helper in music creation. Use smart and convenient tools of Staventabs for composing and improving scores on your iPad or iPhone. Get inspired by viewing majestic classics scores or practicing good old jazz. Easily edit sheet music and tablature with user friendly interface like never before. Share musical inspiration with your band using Staventabs files. Create music • Start your new score from the scratch or with one of the two dozen templates² • Enter notes with intuitive instrument-independent interface or virtual Piano Keyboard • Explore and edit your score with sophisticated Piano Roll and Drums Editor • Choose from 22 groups of the instruments (keyboards, guitars, strings, drums, percussions, etc.)² listening their preview fragments • Use context-sensitive selection for bars, chords and tracks • Modify notes with dots, tuplets and ties • Make your music alive with lyrics • Customize clefs, key signatures and time signatures for bars • Change dynamics • Switch between enharmonic equivalents of the notes • Use customizable voices • Setup tunings with the large value of presets • Navigate around the score with Tracks board • Easily copy, paste and remove selected areas • Switch fast between tablature and stave inputs • Edit tabs with easy-to-use numeric keypad or virtual Fingerboard • Input notes by Staff Positions • Set the visibility for instrument parts in the score • Edit title and information about creators • Select and customize horizontal, vertical or page layout for your score • Use Scientific or Helmholtz pitch notation when entering notes • Add repeat signs and volta brackets • Don’t worry about losing data thanks to auto-saving • Connect your MIDI devices to Staventabs Practice your songs • Play the whole composition or selected fragment • Customize metronome clicking and countdown • Change track’s audio properties on-the-fly • Loop the playback of the desired part Improve compositions • Mark non-playable objects with "Highlight issues" • Use the "Starred scales" AI to determine the chromatic scales most similar to the selected area • Adjust the semitones of the selected area notes to the chromatic scale • Customize the chromatic scale for adjustment³ • Diminish, augment and subdivide note values • Transpose pitches by semitones Manage projects • Browse your projects with convenient file manager • Store your compositions in iCloud Drive and keep them up-to-date across all your iOS devices • Create new projects and duplicate existing (up to three editable projects in free version)¹ • Listen to preview fragments of the scores directly from the files menu • Open SNT, MIDI, MusicXML, Compressed MusicXML (MXL), Guitar Pro (GPX, GP5, GP4, GP3) and Karaoke (KAR) files • Edit MIDI, MusicXML, MXL, Guitar Pro and Karaoke files¹ • Organize your files from a desktop computer using iTunes or iCloud Drive • Open files from Mail and other applications (Dropbox, Box, etc.) • Convert files between supported formats¹ Share your brand-new hits with friends • Email your scores and tabs right from Staventabs • Print your score¹ • Export to PDF and MPEG-4 AAC¹ Features marked with superscript numbers are available via the corresponding in-app purchases: ¹ Unlimited Projects ² Additional Instruments ³ Advanced Composing

About

Anyone Composer

Easily create and play original music with simple tapping. This app allows anyone, from children to adults, to compose songs, record them, and even add voiceovers. Explore playing samples to learn basic patterns and customize your musical creations.

Highlights
  • Easy tapping composition
  • Automatic music playback
  • Note code customization
  • Tempo and stroke control
  • Metronome function
  • Music recording
  • Voice recording
Features
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Anyone can play and compose music by only easy tapping by this music app! From grown up to children can play so easy. - Playing You can play music automatically. And you can change playing notes of code by tapping buttons. So anyone who has never played music can play original music. Sound by buttons are all matching. So you can play good music even selecting button randomly. You can change way of stroke and tempo. And you can change code set for all note patterns. You can use metronome. - Recording You can record the music just played. And you can play them anytime. If you could create good music, save it. And you car record voice on it. Save your song immediately! - Playing Sample Playing Sample page is added. If you don't know how to play, you can see playing samples. Try them first to learn basic patterns. You also can listen to them. - Customzie You can create customized codes and play with it.

Screenshots

Staventabs4 screens
Anyone Composer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Anyone Composer at 5.0 against Staventabs's 3.8. Anyone Composer also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (10.3 vs 16.4). Staventabs's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (65% vs 36%). On price, update cadence and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Staventabs sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Anyone Composer asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Anyone Composer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Staventabs has 71 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 65% of Staventabs's written reviews are positive against 36% of Anyone Composer's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Staventabs versus Anyone Composer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStaventabsAnyone Composer
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (71 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews64.9% of reviews — better36.4% of reviews
Number of ratings71 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.410.3 — better
Further details — not scored
Size128 MB107 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIvan KorovinShoichi Namba

Customer experience

Staventabs

All ratings71 ratings
Positive66.2%
Neutral11.3%
Negative22.5%
Written reviews228 reviews
Positive64.9%
Neutral12.3%
Negative22.8%

Anyone Composer

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive36.4%
Neutral18.2%
Negative45.5%

Bugs and requests

Staventabs

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Imported MIDI files lose instrument assignments
  • Disappearing projects after updates
  • Inability to adjust note lengths in piano roll
  • Metronome not audible over instrument playback

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add support for grace notes and ornaments
  • Implement repeat/coda symbols
  • Allow custom font and layout options
  • Integrate MIDI input and output
  • Improve chord recognition accuracy

Anyone Composer

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Staventabs

One-time3
  • Advanced composing$9.99
  • Unlimited projects$10.99
  • Additional instruments$10.99
None

Anyone Composer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Staventabs free?
Staventabs is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Anyone Composer free?
Anyone Composer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Staventabs or Anyone Composer?
Anyone Composer is rated higher. Staventabs averages 3.8 out of 5 from 71 ratings, while Anyone Composer averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Staventabs or Anyone Composer have ads?
Anyone Composer shows ads; Staventabs does not.
Which is updated more often, Staventabs or Anyone Composer?
Staventabs ships an update every 3 weeks, and Anyone Composer every 3 weeks. Most recently, Staventabs was updated on November 1, 2026 and Anyone Composer on October 11, 2026.

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